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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy under his control. But she did not yield. Her love and respect for her guru were exemplary. Her surrender at the feet of her guru was complete and her sacrifice was quite impressive. She left behind her in 1949, her three sons, the youngest son at that time was just one year old. She gave up all the comforts of her life
the life of simplicity and hardships for many years in order to be loyal to her guru. Indira Devi remained true to her guru all throughout their stay together at the Ashram.
Dilip Roy observed that when he accepted her as his disciple, her capacity to have higher spiritual, almost supra-physical experiences, was revealed. She rapidly blossomed in the light of her spirit soon after her spiritual birth in 1949. Dilip Roy records:
"What happened was that directly after her initiation, whenever I sang songs on Krishna, she started going off, intermittently into a samadhi which sometimes lasted for hours. She would sit stone-still-often with a beatific smile on her lips, or with profuse tears streaming down her cheeks. Once I saw her sit like this, petrified, for more than eight long hours. Sri Aurobindo wrote to me in a letter that "her samadhi was of the savikalpa kind."
*Then she began to see, in her vision, a lovely lady in Rajput dress who sang to her beautiful devotional songs in a
voice athrob with love's yearning and pain-viraha.”12
Later on, she remembered the songs which, in her trances, she had heard that Rajput lady sing. Indira Devi began to dictate those songs to Dilip Roy. Then, he had no doubt that the woman who visited Indira Devi in her samudhi was no other than Mira Bai, Queen of Mevar. In this manner, Dilip Roy took down almost 800 songs and published many of them in collections entitled: Shrutanjali (1950), Premanjali (1953). Sudhanjali (1958), Deepanjali (1960) and so on. Dilip Roy was astonished, in the initial stage, to find her remembering Mira's songs verbatim. Then he could understand why "Our Vedas were called Shrutis (meaning things heard) and the sages claimed that the messages came from on high and as such must be looked upon as Apaurasheya, Revelatory."113
Dilip Roy was very much satisfied when Sri Aurobindo, whom he considered the most authentic person on ancient and modern mysticism, commented in favour of the sincerity of Indira Devi's experiences. In two of his letters, he wrote to Dilip Roy:
"There is nothing impossible... in Mirabai manifesting in this way through the agency of Indira's trance, provided she (Mira) is still sufficiently in touch with this world to accompany Krishna
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